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02/01/2007: Vista Versions: As per Walter S. Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal:

A) Home: 1) Home Basic 2) Home Premium 3) Home Ultimate. Home Premium, is the one most consumers will want. It contains the full Aero interface, and it includes the functionality of Windows Media Center and Windows Tablet edition, which have been discontinued as separate products. It will come preloaded on most midrange and some high-end consumer PCs. The other main consumer edition of Vista is the stripped-down version, called Home Basic. It includes the improved security and search but leaves out the new Aero interface and the Media Center and Tablet functions. It will be preloaded on low-price PCs. A third version, called Ultimate, will wrap up everything in Home Premium with some additional features from the business versions of Vista. This is for power users, and it is likely to be preloaded on high-end PCs. But some regular users may need Vista Ultimate if their companies have particular network configurations that make it impossible to connect to the company network from home with Home Basic or Home Premium.

B) Business: 1) Vista Business 2) Vista Enterprise 3) Vista Ultimate. There are three versions of Vista with features aimed at businesses. One, called Vista Business, is for small businesses. It includes some business features, like comprehensive backup and more sophisticated networking, but omits some consumer features, such as Media Center and DVD Maker. Another, called Vista Enterprise, is for deployment by information-technology departments at large, complex organizations. It also lacks key consumer features, but includes features useful to network administrators, such as a capability called BitLocker for encrypting disk drives. The third version, Windows Ultimate, has the small-business features as well as the consumer features omitted from Vista Business. It also includes BitLocker.

01/18/2007: Read Vista Review from the WSJ: http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20070118.html

10/11/2005: You can make text appear sharper on the monitor in Windows XP by turning on a hidden feature called 'ClearType'. Just right-click on the desktop and select 'Properties'. Then, select the tab called 'Appearance' and press the 'Effects...' button. In the screen that appears, check the box reading "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts", and select 'ClearType' in the dropdown list. Next, click on 'OK' and then press 'Apply'. This is available only in Windows XP, not in older versions of Windows.

10/14/2005: Traveling and need to connect from a remote location?. Working from another location and need to connect to your computer?. Before you leave goto LogMeIn.COM and issue an invitation to a remote user to access your system. Remember your account/email and password and you can login in from any internet browser. The standard edition (which does not include file transfer and remote printing after the 30 day trial period) is free and that is all you need.

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, . "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics: 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day. 2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this. 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. 5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads. 6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed an Illegal Operation" warning light. 7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying. 8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna. 9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because! none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. 10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.

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